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20386 [lbo-talk] light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Thomas Seay wrote: > >>Yes, but sometimes a Lolita is just a Lolita. >>It's obviously a hot sexual fetish. Some people are >>into leather and others want to dress up like a >>"little girl" and let daddy make them feel good. > >The article doesn't offer much support for the fetish angle By the way, that's why I chose the subject heading - since the look seems not to be fire unto the loins.

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 14:13:54 PDT 2004

20387 [lbo-talk] Sayles latest -- rank: 1000

[sent offlist by Shane T - thanks - haven't seen the movie, but this is a sharp & interesting critique of a style and a temperament] From Jonathan Rosenbaum's review of Silver City: Despite John Sayles's charm and good intentions as a writer-director, I started avoiding his movies around the time his Men With Guns was released in 1998. The closer his fictions came to reality, the more inadequate they seemed, with their conventional plots and familiar characters. Iadmire the man's politics, b ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 14:09:46 PDT 2004

20388 [lbo-talk] light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Yes, but sometimes a Lolita is just a Lolita. >It's obviously a hot sexual fetish. Some people are >into leather and others want to dress up like a >"little girl" and let daddy make them feel good. The article doesn't offer much support for the fetish angle: >he frumpy, frilly fashion, however, is not considered particularly >sexy by Japanese men. To be sure, the little-girl look has a place >in Japan's sex industry -- the school uniform, espec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 12:48:41 PDT 2004

20389 [lbo-talk] CBS producer in Fontgate story not a hack -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 17, 2004 CBS Producer Spent Years On Bush Record By BROOKS BARNES and JOE FLINT Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL After she uncovered photos of abuse at Iraq's Abu Gharib prison, "60 Minutes" producer Mary Mapes told a newspaper interviewer that she'd "never had a story that reverberated like this." Now, four months later, Ms. Mapes is experiencing reverberations of a different kind. Forensic document experts, lawmakers and numerous me ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 09:31:43 PDT 2004

20390 [lbo-talk] Powerless religious right? -- rank: 1000

ok enough on the religious right! we're re-trodding well-trodden ground

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 09:27:30 PDT 2004

20391 [lbo-talk] the "rationality" postulate (was Re: policymaking by thesaurus) -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >What I should have said was that the results of the study reported >on in the WSJ Rebello article forwarded by Doug were consistent with >Keynes's liquidity preference theory. The study doesn't, to say the >least, interpret its results in terms of this theory, so it's not a >"return to Keynes" in this sense. > >The rationality postulate underpinning the view of financial markets >that does actually dominate conventional economic analysis - ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 09:14:05 PDT 2004

20392 [lbo-talk] light of my life, maybe not the fire of my loins -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 17, 2004 The Little-Girl Look Is Big in Japan Now -- Among the Brave 'Lolitas' Dress as Baby Dolls, And Take a Lot of Guff; 'This Is the Real Me' By GINNY PARKER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TOKYO -- When Hayaka Otani goes out, she likes to wear one of her many baby-doll outfits: puffy pink dress, frilly bloomers, knee socks and a big white bonnet. But Ms. Otani is hardly a child. She's a 20-year-old store clerk and student at a technical college. She ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 07:31:52 PDT 2004

20393 [lbo-talk] the "likely voter" problem -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 16, 2004 Election Surveys That Screen Out 'Unlikely' Voters Might Be Outdated Al Hunt Presidential elections are poll-driven. The candidate ahead in the surveys usually gets better coverage, and the results energize supporters. The one behind often comes across as doing little right, and campaigns and constituencies lose confidence. But what if the polls are wrong, and we aren't surveying the real likely electorate? This might be more than an academic issue. A num ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 07:17:21 PDT 2004

20394 [lbo-talk] Gallup: Bush 13 points ahead -- rank: 1000

[this makes no sense - the Pew and Gallup polls were taken at almost the same time, yet the first has the race dead even, and the second has W 13 points ahead] Politics Poll Finds Bush Lead Surging Among Likely Voters Fri Sep 17, 2:04 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) has surged to a 13-point lead over Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) among likely voters, according to a new USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll released on Friday. The newspaper said Bush's 55 ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 07:13:59 PDT 2004

20395 [lbo-talk] Rothbard on Polanyi: the hell with primitivsm -- rank: 1000

Down With Primitivism: A Thorough Critique of Polanyi by Murray N. Rothbard [This critique was written as a private memo to the Volker Fund in June 1961. It has never been published. It is posted here September 17, 2004.] Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation is a farrago of confusions, absurdities, fallacies, and distorted attacks on the free market. The temptation is to engage in almost a line-by-line critique. I will abjure this to first set out some of the basic philosophic and economic fl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 07:02:32 PDT 2004

20396 [lbo-talk] policymaking by thesaurus -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Thus to argue that statements about the Feds intentions had a more >profound effect than rate cuts is misleading because, as I argued >above, the former relies on the latter for credibility. I think what's interesting about the study (and the full paper also looks at other "unconventional" policies, like buying long-term bonds) is that the markets actually believed the Fed, pushing long rates lower than they otherwise would have been. That is, the yield curve wa ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 06:54:56 PDT 2004

20397 [lbo-talk] Million Worker March? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Is it just Max, Mark Pavlick, and me from the list? The Million >Worker March will not be as big as the August 29, 2004 "World Says >No to the Bush Agenda" march organized by UfPJ, much less worldwide >mobilization against the invasion of Iraq on February 15, 2003. The >social composition of main organizers and likely participants of the >Million Worker March -- both in terms of class and race -- is, >however, far more critical to the fut ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 06:44:03 PDT 2004

20398 [lbo-talk] Re: Powerless religious right? -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Oh please god no! Lets go back to Doug's balding head. It is a dead >thread stop flogging it. I'm not sure how compelling my personal bout with alopecia would be as a topic of coversation, but the Xtian right thing has gotten seriously tired. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 06:22:30 PDT 2004

20399 [lbo-talk] Submission: An Open Letter to George Steinbrenner and the NY Yankees -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >There is no reason why this piece of >mail should have showed up in my >inbox. I have a folder set up to receive >lbo-talk mail. > >My point being: >Please address mail to the list, not >thru some Cc:/Bcc: scheme. > >Thank you. > >Leigh Meyers >leighcmeyers at yahoo.com > > >----- Original Message ----- From: mitchelcohen at mindspring.com >To: mitchelcohen at mindspring.com >Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:47 PM > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 16:32:58 PDT 2004

20400 [lbo-talk] hurricanes & climate change -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64952,00.html> 11:40 AM Sep. 15, 2004 PT Hurricane Ivan is among the most powerful Atlantic storms in recent history, and more such storms are likely in the future due to global warming, say climate experts. "Global warming is creating conditions that (are) more favorable for hurricanes to develop and be more severe," said Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 16:02:40 PDT 2004